John D. Snider
By JOHN D. SNIDER, Manager, Book Department, Review and Herald Publishing Association
Widen Your Intellectual Horizon
No man will ever be the preacher he might be unless he annually does some mental tiptoeing under the inspiration and guidance of those mentors in books who have the power to enrich his preaching style and add to the content of his sermons.
The Preacher and His Books
A liberal education does not consist in knowing the contents of a large number of books, or even in book learning as a whole. It consists in knowing those books which clarify one's own life experience, and which act as a true lever to his faith.
Read or Perish—No. 1
No religious leader can justify his ignorance of, nor his indifference to, the books that his people are reading on the ground of the preeminent importance of his own specialized reading.
Read or Perish—No. 2
No worker can give his best service, nor find his place most effectively in the life and work of people today, without knowing what life and work have meant to men of other days.
Golden Moments
The economic conditions which have necessitated the release of certain of our workers have increased the duties of others, making it more difficult than ever for them to find adequate time for reading and meditation.
Expand Your Mental Horizons
If the reader does his part aright, literature will give him both depth of insight and breadth of outlook.